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  ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

  Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH is a physician scientist, professor and chair of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and the chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care. Dr. Trzeciak is a practicing intensivist (specialist in intensive care medicine), and a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical researcher with more than 100 publications in the scientific literature, primarily in the field of resuscitation science. Dr. Trzeciak’s publications have been featured in some of the most prestigious medical journals, such as: Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Circulation, and The New England Journal of Medicine. His scientific program has been supported by research grants from the American Heart Association and the NIH (National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), with Dr. Trzeciak serving in the role of Principal Investigator.

  Dr. Trzeciak is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He earned his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Masters in Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, and his fellowship training in critical care medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is board-certified in internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care medicine, and neurocritical care.

  Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE is co-president of Cooper University Health Care and the associate dean of clinical affairs for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Prior to his current role, Dr. Mazzarelli served as Cooper’s chief physician executive where he oversaw the physician practice, as well as quality/patient safety and continuous process improvement efforts for the health system, the same topics for which he teaches within the medical school and residency programs. Dr. Mazzarelli has been named one of the 50 most powerful people in New Jersey health care by NJ Biz and was awarded the Halo Award for leading a team of health care providers from Cooper into Haiti in the days immediately following the 2010 earthquake. Dr. Mazzarelli has also received numerous commendations for his leadership and he speaks regularly on several local and national media outlets.

  Dr. Maz
zarelli received his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, his law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his master’s degree in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident. He is board-certified in emergency medicine, and is actively practicing in the emergency department at Cooper.

  About Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

  Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in southern New Jersey, and one of the most trusted health systems in the region. Located on the Health Sciences Campus in Camden, New Jersey, Cooper University Hospital is an academic, tertiary care medical center that is the academic affiliate for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Cooper is southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center, and has one of the region’s leading cancer centers, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. Cooper has over 100 ambulatory care locations throughout southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with more than 1.4 million outpatient visits annually, and a 650-physician multi-specialty employed faculty practice plan.

  Since Cooper is the only tertiary care academic health system in southern New Jersey and a regional referral center, Drs. Trzeciak, Mazzarelli, and their colleagues are fortunate to be able to take care of an incredible array of fascinating and complex patients.